West Palace - Netflix

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Banished to the West Palace, Queen Inmok is depicted as a virtuous lady
who fell victim to palace politics. Her stepson Prince Gqanhae is being
mislead by the scheming concubine Kim Gae Shi, but her ambitions and
isatiable thirst for powers leads him to his downfall.

Type: Scripted

Languages: Korean

Status: Ended

Runtime: 65 minutes

Premier: 1995-07-03

West Palace - East Palace, West Palace - Netflix

East Palace, West Palace (Dong gong xi gong) is a 1996 Chinese film
directed by Zhang Yuan starring Hu Jun and Si Han and based on a short
story by the cult writer Wang Xiaobo. It is also known as Behind the
Forbidden City or Behind the Palace Gates. East Palace, West Palace is
the first Mainland Chinese movie with an explicitly homosexual theme.
The title of the movie derives from the two parks near the Forbidden
City — the East Palace and the West Palace. The two parks, specifically
their public washrooms, are notorious for being places of congregation
for the homosexuals in Beijing during the night. The film was shot in
the spring of 1996, when it was smuggled out of China for
post-production in France. It premiered at the Mar del Plata Film
Festival in Argentina in November 1996 and at the 1997 Cannes Film
Festival as part of the Un Certain Regard competition.

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